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My Car: 2007 Prius Package: #6 Touring Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(qbee42 @ Jul 9 2007, 08:02 AM) [snapback]475500[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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| Uneducated bird-brain Aussie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Adelaide South Australia
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My Car: 2004 Prius Package: Base Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 15 | From: - http://www.nowpublic.com/life/energy...myth-or-legend Stanley Meyer, inventor of the 'water-powered car'. Meyer just wanted to give people cheap, clean energy....In 1996 he was found guilty of "gross and egregious fraud" by an Ohio court. He died in 1998 after eating at a restaurant; the coroner diagnosed an aneurysm, but the conspiracy web still suspects he was poisoned [by oil companies]... ...It's not easy to establish how Meyer's car was meant to work, except that it involved a fuel cell that was able to split water using less energy than was released by recombination of the elements. Dig a little deeper and you will soon find the legendary Brown's gas — a modern chemical unicorn to rival phlogistion — in which hydrogen and oxygen are combined in a non-aqueous state called 'oxyhydrogen', in the same proportions in which they are found in water (2:1). Brown's gas was allegedly used as a vehicle fuel by its discoverer, Australian inventor Yull Brown. |
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(patsparks @ Sep 19 2007, 05:25 AM) [snapback]514694[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Wait a second, doesn't the alternator produce more electricity than is neccessary, thus "free" or wasted energy? Recouping this with the hydrogen system seems like a good Idea? Writing this off as hogwash at first glance seems shortsighted to me? Am I wrong? |
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #2 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Hi All, There has to be conservation of energy. There has to be conservation of energy. There has to be conservation of energy. Consequently its impossible to power a car from sea water alone in a non-nuclear fashion. Sorry. That as basic as gravity. Get over it. No other BS washes. What might be advantageous to fuel economy is to get more of the gasoline energy into the engine output shaft. Remember, standard Otto engines are only 10 to 25 % efficient, depending on load. That is 75 percent wasted energy! Could that energy be tapped? We know it can with different engine designs, like those in the Prius and Diesels. Is it possible to make a gasoline calibrated Otto engine an HCCI, or psuedo-Diesel by injecting H2 and O2, or some other gas (HO and H mixture ?) along with gasoline? I think that is worth investigating. Will it punch a hole in a cylinder in an engine not designed for the specific burn that does occur? Could. Will it generate lots of NOx, like other Diesels? Could. Will it result in 20 % better fuel economy? Could. |
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My Car: 2007 Prius Package: #6 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 7 | http://www.nowpublic.com/life/energy...myth-or-legend Quote:
I'm ready to convert my Ford Explorer to run on seawater. It only gets 15 mpg on gasoline, so what kind of mileage can I expect with seawater? Can I get 100 miles per 17 gal tank? Sign me up. If this works as advertised, I will be able to sell my Prius and drive my SUV using seawater. Quote:
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 5 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dallas2727 @ Sep 19 2007, 07:05 PM) [snapback]515016[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #6 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 9 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(D Rock @ Sep 18 2007, 07:55 PM) [snapback]514622[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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Nobody wants free energy more than I do. But this all just pegs the BS meter at max. You can't surpress this, folks. Not world-wide. Not even nation-wide. We've got too many smart people (and too many quacks too, apparently). As the Zeitgeist movie says, "truth is not told, it is realized." Well, the "water into energy" movies tell us what to believe. Yet nobody has yet realized it. | ||||
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| awaaay Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC
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My Car: 2004 Prius Package: Base Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 30 | How about a deep-cycle battery that gets more efficient with use, runs on water and bananas, and is genetically predisposed to being plugged in? |
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My Car: 2007 Prius Package: #6 Touring Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Sep 19 2007, 09:43 PM) [snapback]515138[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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